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...addition, if the new contract results in a lower indirect cost than the provisional agreement of 88 percent, then the University will have to pay back the excess received under the provisional cap, the source said

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Med School Probe May Prove Costly | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...Merci la Vie. "Like all the great talents, Gerard is a raw talent -- art brut. They learn a little technique doing theater, but the rest is inside them. Brando, Dustin Hoffman, Mastroianni: he's in that great class." Like those actors, Depardieu is capable of melodramatic excess; to give all is sometimes to give too much. But also like them, he has set an indelible stamp on his country's films, defining current French cinema as fully as any auteur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in A Big Glass | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...from supervising the contract and censured; in addition, an admiral was fired, and the Pentagon's top procurement officer resigned. The Justice Department has begun a criminal investigation of whether the contractors overcharged the Navy. And the Pentagon said it will try to recover the funds already spent in excess of the contract terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of the A-12 | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

...University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Misshapen cell nuclei, abnormal amounts of DNA or an accelerated rate of cell division are all bad signs, suggesting a need for chemotherapy or tamoxifen. Newer tests include examining tumor cells for extra copies of cancer-causing genes or excess amounts of an enzyme called Capthepsin D, which seems to play a role in metastasis. Says McGuire: "Today we know that if you have a low score on all these markers, your chance of recurrence is less than 10%. If you score high, your chance is greater than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rough Road to Recovery | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...rich in the '90s is not in style." Families are learning hard lessons in economics, and in discipline. One by one, items drop from the budget of a middle-class dream: cable TV, designer coffee, a winter vacation, credit cards. In the boom years of the decade, when no excess was too wretched, household debt grew about 50% faster than disposable income. "I really try to get us on a savings plan," says Sarah Frazier, who lives with her husband Richard in Idyllwild, Calif. "We want to start a family someday, and it's getting harder and harder with food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ho Ho Humbug | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

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